Nina Bogdan has worked as a professional Russian/English translator and interpreter since 1984 and is certified by the American Translators Association in the Russian to English language pair. Since January of 2008, she has been working full time as a freelance translator and writer, specializing in legal, financial and technical Russian to English translation. Her book, Russian San Francisco, with co-author Lydia Zaverukha, was published in January of 2010. In addition, she was the editor of Translorial, the NCTA quarterly journal, from 2008 to September 2011.
Nina has recently completed a book about her family history, titled The Desolation of Exile: A Russian Family's Odyssey and the e-book version is now available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009D4BFPS.
Additional photos and video about Nina's own "odyssey" to discover her family's history area available at http://www.thedesolationofexile.com/.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

From 1984 to 2007, Nina Bogdan worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. During her career, she passed a number of in-house examinations and was promoted to the position of Master Linguist in 1995. In the year 2000, she was promoted to the position of GS-13 Language Analyst, the top level linguist position in the organization.
As a Language Analyst, she was responsible for handling all requests for Russian/English translations and interpreting from within the regional field office as well as other field offices, FBI Headquarters, Legal Attachés, and local and federal government agencies.
Both during her career with the U.S. government, as a freelance translator, and while working on various research projects of her own, Nina Bogdan has honed her analytical and research skills. During her career, her work included providing expert assistance in a wide range of international and domestic criminal and intelligence investigations.

Her work included:

Writing analytical reports

Translation

Interpreting

Transcription

Liaison assistance

Project management and coordination

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Nina Bogdan has translated thousand of documents on a wide variety of topics and has transcribed thousands of hours of recorded material. Areas of expertise include:

Law

Business

Economics

Politics

Finance

Military

Telecommunications

Journalism

History

Literature

RECENT PROJECTSTechnical Advisor/Translator at Drachman Instituteof the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona for project:
"The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska: Historical Ecclesiastical Landscape Study 1840-1920":
Providing contextual materials for a greater understanding of the intellectual and geographic impact of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Alaskan landscape.http://capla.arizona.edu/project/russian-orthodox-church-alaska-historic

Research assistant/translator for Robert W. Cherny, Professor emeritus of History, San Francisco State University for his book Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017).

FAMILY HISTORY
Nina has been actively involved in genealogical research and has traveled to Russia in connection with this project to collect archival documentation about the Ukhtomskiy and Nazariev families. More

THE DESOLATION OF EXILE:
A RUSSIAN FAMILY'S ODYSSEYNow available on Amazon:

RUSSIAN SAN FRANCISCO ON SALE!Russian San Francisco, a photographic history of the Russian community in San Francisco by Nina Bogdan and Lydia Zaverukha, is available at www.arcadiapublishing.com, Amazon,and other book-sellers.